There's more here than just playing. I wish it just meant runs and hits and errors, the things you can see in a box score.

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7 seconds sound clip from the The Jackie Robinson Story movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:22:16.557 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- The war set us back a little.

- So three years ago, the Brooklyn Dodger management decided to scout untapped sources of supply. Mexico, Cuba, all the Latin American countries, and our own country, too. That right, Clyde?

- From coast to coast.

- Yes. For players who can help us win.

- Many of the men we saw were good. Some had great promise. Like you.

- You think you can do it, Jackie? Make good in organized baseball?

- If I got the chance.

- There's more here than just playing. I wish it just meant runs and hits and errors, the things you can see in a box score.

- A box score. You know, a box score is really democratic, Jackie. It doesn't say how big you are, or how your father voted in the last election, or what church you attend. It just tells you what kind of a ballplayer you were that day.

- Well, isn't that what counts?

- It's all that ought to count. And maybe some day it's all that will count.

- That's why we brought you here. I wanna see if we can make a start in that direction.

- It'll take a lot of courage.

- Yeah. It sure will.

- It might take more courage for the organization than for you, Jackie. Have you thought of that?

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But I am certain that I, and other Americans of many races and faiths, have too much invested in our country's welfare to throw it away or to let it be taken from us.

I'm not fooled because I've had a chance open to very few Negro Americans, but I do know that democracy works for those who are willing to fight for it, and I'm sure it's worth defending.

Trouble? The only trouble I'm worried about is ground balls to my right.

That's just like you. The first thing on top is your glove. What are you gonna do with it? -I don't know. Don't know if I'll ever do anything with it again.

All right, men. I respect your right to petition. But I do question and I will fight any petition that denies any American the right to earn his living in the game that is supposed to represent the democratic principles of sportsmanship and fair play!

The Jackie Robinson Story Sound Clip

Memorable voice quotes from the biographical film The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), starring Jackie Robinson as himself.

Actors: Jackie Robinson (Himself), Ruby Dee (Rae Robinson), Minor Watson (Branch Rickey), Louise Beavers (Jackie's mother)

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